Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-23

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WE ARE still of the opinion that
some action should be taken toward
the organization of hook and ladder
or hose company. There are certainly
enough willing men in the city to join
such a company and prepare them
selves to meet a fire in some system
attic manner.
The Wichita Eagle and Hutchinson
Ne,os are engaged in a wOrdy war try
ing to settle which paper prints the
most news. Really we have never at
tempted to count the words received
by each and would be no authority in
the matter. But it seems to us there
is not difference enough between them
for quarrel.
CHICAGO has finished the trial of her
two boodlers and the jury found them
guilty, fixing their sentence at three
years in the state penitentiary. There
has been an idea extant for many years
that western cities were slow to mete
out Justice. But in this instance Chi
cago has set an example for New York
which the latter place should not fail
to initiate in dealing with its bOOdlers.
HON. JAMES MCCARTNEY is to de-
liver the principal Grafton at the
Fourth of July celebration at Ness
City. The Sentinel of that place says
that Ness was never known to do any
thing by halves, but expects to have
the greatest celebration ever seen in
western Kansas. If the Sentinel will
take a word of advice from us we
would suggest that Ness City get their
base ball nine together and come
down to Great Bend on that day.
a DAY or two ago large number of
wheat gamblers in Chicago came to
when it subsidized several firms whose
checks the day before would have been
worth half a million were without a
dollar. Naturally we will sympathize
went to speculating, knowing full well
that they were treading on slippery
ground, and when their final collapse
come they were trying to engineer a
deal which would have ruined some one
else.
THE Commonwealth In speaking of
hr in. "
circles says, "The republican party
now have the game in their own
hands, The Commonwealth is little
more out spoken than some of the re-
publican papers. So it is not the G..
A. r. raising all this muss after all,
but the republican party? We thought
so all the time. Our prediction is that
if this country is thoroughly convinced
that the republican party is using the
Grand Army organization as political
annex there will soon be another lively
breeze.
THE bitter war between Dodge and
Garden City does not appear to abate
in the least. There is charge and
counter charge, accusation and cOun-
ter accusation. Dodge City affirms
that her rival Is nothing but a mush-
room in growth, and some fine morn
ing the people thereof will ''fOld their
tents like the Arabs and as silently
steal away" Garden City retOrts by
saying that Dodge is the cesspool for
all the crime and lawlessness of the
state, and her only increase is in this
kind of material. We fear that the
energies of both towns will be ex-
hausted in this senseless fight in which
neither can gain anything with fair
prospects of both losing in the END.
THE farmer in the east who from
year to year has struggled along on a
small and often unprOducive farm is
often tempted to Try the west by the
stories he occasionally hears from here,
But then the question game PIP to hip,
i!gan better myself by goings" We
are writing this short article for the
benefit of just SUCH persons. We are
free to say that any persons situated as
we have supposed can better them
selves by coming to western Kansas.
We have here in Barton county three
things which goes to make farming
profitable. We have rich soil, yield
ing on an average, fifty bushels of corn
to the acre; we have reliable seasons;
and last, we have splendid facilities
for marketing our produce. Two
other things that are of vital interest
IN tha farmer wa ara hiAssad with. viz,